Stemming the Tide of Intolerance: Stories

Muhammad Daud Khan
Pakistan
Lengthy governmental procedures and religious intolerance prevents Christians from building a church in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.

Zia Asad
Pakistan
Religious minorities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) seek quota in higher education institutes.

Rubatheesan Sandranathan
Sri Lanka
Four years after the Easter Sunday attacks, Christians and Muslims in multiethnic Negombo are still trying to repair the damage that threatened communal and religious harmony between communities that lived side-by-side for centuries.

Rubatheesan Sandranathan and Asim Ahmed Khan
Sri Lanka and Pakistan
Hundreds of foreign refugees and asylum seekers are facing an uncertain future in Sri Lanka as the local UN refugee agency representation office in Colombo plans to wind up its operations by the end of this year.

Mirza Ghani Baig, Fazal Ur Rehman and Nadeem Khan
India and Pakistan
Cross-border marriages between India and Pakistan face numerous challenges, including difficulties in obtaining citizenship, restricted travel, and bureaucratic obstacles.

Umar Bacha and Puja Bhattacharjee
Pakistan and India
Cross-border families caught in the crossfire of the India - Pakistan conflict.

Tehreem Azeem
Pakistan
Pakistani ex-muslims who experienced a lack of freedom of expression, use social media to express themselves and voice their concerns.

Ayaz Brohi
Pakistan
Increased safety risks for the Ahmadiyya community in Pakistan due to the creation of a separate electoral list for them by the Election Commission of Pakistan.

Bharat Kumar Nayak
India
The impact of hate speech on India's minority communities.

Saiyed Zegham Murtaza
India
How the Modi-led BJP has used city development plans to remove Muslim religious places in India.

Tharmakulasingham Tharmendra
Sri Lanka
Religious disputes between Tamils and Muslims in eastern Sri Lanka.
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Purujoththaman Thangamayl
Sri Lanka
How the Sri Lankan government has used the 'International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights Act' (ICCPR Act) to target minorities.
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Joseph Anton George
Sri Lanka
How Buddhists have occupied Hindu places of worship in Sri Lanka.
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Sravasti Dasgupta
India
How Muslim homes in India have been demolished due to the application of bulldozer justice.

Christy Shelton Fernando
Sri Lanka
The Sri Lankan government's censorship and prosecution of writers, artists and religion-related creators.
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Shahzad Naveed and Varsha Torgalkar
Pakistan and India
How extremist groups of majority communities are targeting heritage sites of minority communities in Pakistan and India.

Muhammad Amin Anwar, Rohit Upadhyay and Priyatharsan Veerarajan
Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka
Challenges that journalists who are minorities face in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Priyal Shah, Mohamed Aboobacker and Mohamed Rishwan
India and Sri Lanka
How the Prevention of Terrorism Act No. 48 of 1979 has suppressed minorities in Sri Lanka and how the Citizenship Act (CAA), the Bodach Act and the Prevention of Terrorism Act (PTT) have suppressed minorities in India.

Parthiban Shanmuganathan
Sri Lanka
The denial of justice for Muslim victims of the 2018 state-sponsored Sinhalese attacks.
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Hamna Baig
Pakistan
The deplorable living and working conditions for minority sanitation workers in Pakistan.

Ravichchandrasarma Ramkumar
Sri Lanka
The expansion of Buddhism in Tamil and Hindu archeological sites. This is a two-part series.
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Abdul Qayum
Pakistan
Lack of cremation places for non-muslims in Pakistan.

Irfan Ullah Jan
Pakistan
Christians living in seven tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have to travel many kilometers to bury their dead because they have not been granted a cemetery.